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When Jeff come in he told Vesper he would have to get up =. * early io the morning she asked why and ne said he was going ae nee Vinitg. I did not see him next day until after dark I wes doing ~ the supper dishes when he come hone. I set his supper and went “ wok back into the kitchen, he told his wife that Tomnte Let had a 2. “funeral today she said who for Jeff said Kenneth she sald nothing more until they went into the living room then she sald did you make a coffin Jeff sald we bought one, Vesper said aid you have a hearse? Jeff said no they used my car and I and three. wonen were Pall bearers, Vesper said were any of hia people there Jeff acid his mother only. Vesper said what did she think about {t? Jeff seid she waa almost prostrated and a good old Pentecost woman kept repeating to her its the sins of the parents being visited on . their children Vesper said where did you bury hin in the Lo - and he said yes I was in that cemetary @ solid hour! I never felt ao shaky in wy lifel I got right weak in my kmees, she said oh you eught not care he ssid I never let myself in on anything like that before I guess I was scarodi Vesper gaid Le was nothing te youl Not in your iazediate fanily. Little Thouas said was he heavy Papa? several tines and fineily said [11 det he was but got RO answer. a . Vesper told no next t day that toante Late + ity dled ond 3 eff had attended the funeral but she hod previously told ae Lets only. had one child and it was a girl and she introduced tao youmg am -. ” - to me thet brought her a beg of turnips and a hog, thay told her they stole the hog for her and kept herd for themselves she said ~~ how did you keep it from squealing he sald I popzed it between the eyes with « pistol Vesper said how did you get in in the car. Let satd I pulled it into the truck with a pair of falls (?) and edied now listen you folks wi] never be suspected away up here§ . Jeff has e one arsed milk dealer help him load half of it inte - hie cur he sald he would take it to his father he brought beck _ two quarts of whiskey we put the other half in a clothes closet > dm Jeffe bed room and on Thankagiving day Jeff was entertaining - . . nk his father and eight other men th:t his stepaother introduced as ali belng her boys, Vesper told mo one was George Richer a step *” brether of Jeffs one was a full brother his name is Jim Foust. . another was Harper, Preston, who she had previoualy told me lived . - by committing el] kind of crime, while I was cooking two geese ~~ Vesper come into the kitchen and ask ae to cook sone of that pork _ end while I was in the closet cutting west I heard her say